Nov

Autorun.inf virus removal/remover tool

By Rmil

Autorun.inf is a program or a feature in MS Windows that autorun a certain action whenever you insert a pendrive/flashdrive and/or a new dvd/cd automatically, but it is also being used to spread virus in pendrives/flashdrives.

There are many ways to remove autorun.inf virus, it can be removed using CMD command, various autorun.inf removal tool and there’s a prevention from being infected by disabling autorun in the system.

Manual Removal/Remover of Autorun.inf virus:

Boot your system in Safe Mode Command Prompt Only. (can be done by restarting your pc and press F8 before the windows screen shows up)
When the CMD prompt shows up (black and white screen),
- type in CD\ (to get you to the main directory of C:)
- then DIR /AH (to list all files that are hidden, if there’s autorun.inf then you are infected)
- type AUTORUN.INF (shows what’s inside the autorun.inf file, whatever’s inside it’s a virus since )
- for example, it shows “open=virus.exe” remember it.
Type ATTRIB -H -R -S C:\AUTORUN.INF (it unhides the autorun.inf)
DEL C:\AUTORUN.INF
Still at CMD Command, to make sure the virus won’t start again during start-up, type MSCONFIG
System Configuration Utility will show up, look for the virus carrier shown at step 2, which is virus.exe in our example
uncheck virus.exe the OK. that will stop it from running again during start-up.

To Disable Autorun in your system (flashdrive, pendrive, cd, dvd, usb, etc…)

Open REGEDIT (Start>RUN> type REGEDIT)
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
right click on the space then choose DWORD, type NoDriveTypeAutoRun as it’s name
Right click NoDriveTypeAutoRun then modify
key in 000000ff as value data.
or simply download this DISABLE-AUTORUN.REG, extract then run DISABLE-AUTORUN.REG.